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Wonka
Wonka

Reputation: 8684

Laravel 5 - Clean objects in JSON array?

I have this JSON incoming into a controller method:

$data = $request->get('data');
// output
// [{"key": "  Needs Trim  ", "value": "Two"}, {"key": "", "value": "empty key"}]

It's an array of objects and I need to to clean it before inserting it to the DB table:

So the final result after the cleaning of the array of objects would look like this:

[{"key": "Needs Trim", "value": "Two"}]

I looked into laravel's array helper functions but I can't seem to get the output I need after hours spent on this. It expects a different format, and their examples show nested arrays as opposed to objects...

Any idea how to accomplish this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 833

Answers (1)

Wild Beard
Wild Beard

Reputation: 2927

Give this a shot:

$data = json_decode('[{"key": "  Needs Trim  ", "value": "Two"}, {"key": "", "value": "empty key"}]');

foreach ( $data as $key => $el ) {
    foreach ( $el as $valKey => $val ) {
        if ( empty($val) ) {
            unset($data[$key]);
        } else {
            $el->$valKey = trim($val);
        }
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

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